Day 8, Snow Goose / Anser caerulescens
Harlequin Duck / Histrionicus histrionicus
Day 2, sunrise 8
Day 2, young White Ibis, Connie Hagar Cottage Sanc…
Day 3, ENDANGERED Whooping Cranes / Grus americana…
Day 3, Whooping Crane colt, Aransas, Texas
Day 3, Whooping Crane colt flexing its wings, Aran…
Day 3, Cormorant drying its wings, Aransas boat tr…
Day 3, Double-crested Cormorants, Aransas boat tri…
Day 4, Common Gallinule, Leonabelle Turnbull Birdi…
Day 4, Black-bellied Whistling Duck / Dendrocygna…
Day 4, Alligator, Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Cent…
Day 4, Common Gallinule, Leonabelle Turnbull Birdi…
Day 4, Black-bellied Whistling Duck
Day 4, Royal Tern / Thalasseus maximus, Mustang Is…
Day 4, Royal Terns, Mustang Island, Texas
Day 4, Laughing Gulls, Mustang Island, Texas
Day 4, Royal Terns / Thalasseus maximus, Mustang I…
Eared Grebe / Podiceps nigricollis
Frank Lake bird blind
Common Grackle after a bath
Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Mallard family swimming on the river
Day 9, Black-bellied Whistling Duck, Resaca de la…
Frank Lake birding blind
Eared Grebe / Podiceps nigricollis
Storm clouds moving in
Eared Grebe with baby
Coot juvenile
Coot baby following in Mom's footsteps
Eared Grebe baby
Eared Grebe & baby
American White Pelicans on the Bow River
American White Pelicans on the Bow River
Afternoon trip to the mountains
Wedge Pond, Kananaskis, Alberta
Buller Pond, Kananaskis
Forgetmenot Pond, Kananaskis
Forgetmenot Pond
Wedge Pond in fading fall colours
Barrier Lake, Kananaskis
Wedge Pond, Kananaskis
Day 8, Snow Goose
Day 8, Snow Geese
Day 7 afternoon, Prince Shoal Lighthouse, near Tad…
Day 7 afternoon, Prince Shoal Lighthouse
Day 7 afternoon, Prince Shoal Lighthouse, off Tado…
Day 7 afternoon, Surf Scoters off Tadoussac
Day 6, part of Tadoussac, seen from up on the clif…
Day 6, Tadoussac, Quebec
Day 3, on the way to Hillman Marsh, Ontario
Yes, it's the American Dipper again
A view from Chain Lakes
Harlequin Duck male
American Dipper
Into the sun at Pine Coulee Reservoir
American Dipper dipping
Clouds over Chain Lakes
Tundra Swans
Time to feed
Unidentified domestic Duck
American Dipper dipping
American Dipper / Cinclus mexicanus
American Dipper / Cinclus mexicanus
Clouds over Chain Lakes
Domestic duck, unidentified
Forgetmenot Pond, Elbow Falls Trail
Day 2, a wetland after Rondeau PP
Wood Duck male
Day 2, reflected 'Geese', Rondeau PP
Yellowlegs - Lesser or Greater?
Harlequin Duck / Histrionicus histrionicus
Fall colours near the Highwood River
Black-necked Stilt (juvenile?)
American Avocets
On a cold summer day with mist and drizzle
Wood Duck male / Aix sponsa
Wood Duck male / Aix sponsa
Black-necked Stilt (juvenile?) / Himantopus mexica…
Thirsty Bighorn Sheep
Smokey Eagle Lake
Pine Siskin taking a bath
American Coot
American Coot
Ruddy Duck male
Bow Lake on a cloudy day
Reflected peaks
Beautiful Peyto Lake
Friends at Bow Lake
Bow Lake
Bow Lake, Alberta
American Wigeon
A favourite view, Waterton Lakes National Park
Cinnamon Black Bear, Waterton Lakes National Park,…
The Tip, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Birders at The Tip, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Watching the waves at The Tip, Pt Pelee, Ontario,…
Eared Grebes in their mating dance
Western Grebes paired up
Another Pelican treat
Common Merganser male
American White Pelicans, Nikon Coolpix B700
American White Pelicans with my old Panasonic FZ20…
American White Pelicans, zoomed with Nikon B700
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Day 8, Snow Geese
The 10 images posted tonight were all taken on the morning of 14 May 2018, Day 8 of our two-week holiday in Point Pelee (Ontario) and Tadoussac (Quebec). Thankfully, I have reached a few much larger birds, which were a pleasure to see and photograph after struggling to get any shots of the small birds that we had just been seeing. However, those small birds were a real treat, especially the beautiful Lapland Longspurs. Though we do get them in Alberta, I have never seen one here. Most likely, I will never see one again, hence the distant shots that I have uploaded. I still have to track more or less where we saw these particular Snow Geese. The photo of a mass of distant Snow Geese was taken about 50 minutes after the shot of the Great Blue Heron, so the last few photos I have just uploaded were taken in the early afternoon. We get Snow Geese in Alberta, but on the few occasions that I have seen them, they have been far, far away.
"Watching huge flocks of Snow Geese swirl down from the sky, amid a cacophony of honking, is a little like standing inside a snow globe. These loud, white-and-black geese can cover the ground in a snowy blanket as they eat their way across fallow cornfields or wetlands. Among them, you might see a dark form with a white head—a color variant called the “Blue Goose.” Snow Geese have skyrocketed in numbers and are now among the most abundant waterfowl on the continent.
The Snow Goose is a white-bodied goose with black wingtips that are barely visible on the ground but noticeable in flight. The pink bill has a dark line along it, often called a "grinning patch" or "black lips." You may also see dark morph Snow Geese, or "Blue Geese," with a white face, dark brown body, and white under the tail.
Snow Geese don’t like to travel without the company of another couple dozen geese and can form flocks of several hundred thousand. Family groups forage together on wintering grounds, digging up roots and tubers from muddy fields and marshes. In flight, they are steady on the wing with even wingbeats." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Snow_Goose/id
"Watching huge flocks of Snow Geese swirl down from the sky, amid a cacophony of honking, is a little like standing inside a snow globe. These loud, white-and-black geese can cover the ground in a snowy blanket as they eat their way across fallow cornfields or wetlands. Among them, you might see a dark form with a white head—a color variant called the “Blue Goose.” Snow Geese have skyrocketed in numbers and are now among the most abundant waterfowl on the continent.
The Snow Goose is a white-bodied goose with black wingtips that are barely visible on the ground but noticeable in flight. The pink bill has a dark line along it, often called a "grinning patch" or "black lips." You may also see dark morph Snow Geese, or "Blue Geese," with a white face, dark brown body, and white under the tail.
Snow Geese don’t like to travel without the company of another couple dozen geese and can form flocks of several hundred thousand. Family groups forage together on wintering grounds, digging up roots and tubers from muddy fields and marshes. In flight, they are steady on the wing with even wingbeats." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Snow_Goose/id
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